Article Archive - 6/3/2001

Hi everyone.

The following
article was sent to me by Neal (thanks Neal). Unfortunately, for anyone who
understands a little about electromagnetic fields, you will appreciate that
undergrounding the cables will not solve the problem, since ionisation is not
the only cause of the health problems which go way beyond leukaemia to include birth
defects and a number of other disorders that occur at all ages.

The fields
radiating from an electric power line have two components:

an electric field which is easily stopped by even small shielding such as house
walls (some people with a steel roof can earth their roof to provide protection
in most but not all cases), and secondly,

a magnetic field which cannot be shielded in any way shape or form, not even by
solid lead. Magnetic fields, at best, can only be focussed into a smaller more
intense area (the exact principle used in a transformer's iron core).

Thus undergrounding the cables would reduce the electrical component of the fields
(as well as any ionisation which might be occurring in air), but not affect the
magnetic field component. The only protection against this is distance. Magnetic
field strength reduces according to the square of the distance from it. For
example, the field strength at 2 metres is 4 times less than at 1 metre, the
field strength at 10 metres is 100 times less than at 1 metre, etc.

The problem is
that overhead pylon power lines carry enormous voltages (typical lines in New
Zealand are 200,000 volts with the biggest lines at 500,000 volts), and thus
have very strong fields associated with them. Even at distances of 20-30 metres
(the average height of these pylons), the fields are still quite significant as
far as the human body is concerned. Distances of 100-200 metres (and possibly
more) are more appropriate for this size of field to be reduced down to safe
levels.

Any undergrounding project is not likely to place the cables more than a few metres
below the surface, thus putting them closer to people, if anything. Thus, if
mass distribution of power is to be continued, it can only work by zoning those
areas as non-residential, or more accurately, non-inhabitable by either man or
beast (since animals are every bit as susceptible to problems as humans). There
are well documented cases of cows not producing milk or producing calves with
birth defects in pastures where pylons run.

This is partly
due to the electromagnetic fields, but also due to a common phenomenon where the
ground itself becomes electrified by leakage currents from the pylons. Any such
electrification of the ground results in an electrical current heading back
towards its ultimate source, the power station, so that electrical balance can
be achieved. It is not uncommon for there to be voltage differences of 100 volts
over just a few metres of ground in some areas where this leakage occurs.

What is the
real solution? Allow the various suppressed free-energy technologies to be be
released. The idea of any government, corporate, or privately owned institution
(which all amount to the same thing in most cases) owning the rights to exploit
so-called natural resources (the very name "resource" defines it as something to
be used up) and then setting up mass distribution of this power, selling it
through various middlemen, destroying the health of all and sundry (as well as
the environment) in the process is quite horrendous, when the reality is that
there are a number of devices known to extract energy directly from the sea of
energy we live in without any need for mass reticulated distribution.

Anyway, I've
had my say, enjoy the attached article and feel free to distribute this far and
wide.

Graham Bennett
BSc, BEINZ, NZCHP

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Top scientists establish link: Pylons are cancer risk - official

Jonathan Leake Science Editor, the Sunday Times, London

March 4, 2001

HIGH voltage
power cables have been officially linked to cancer for the first time. A study
shows that children living near them run a small but significant increased risk
of falling victim to the disease.

Sir Richard
Doll, the epidemiologist who discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer
in the 1960s, will this week warn that children living near electricity power
lines are at an increased risk from leukaemia.

He is also
expected to say that there may be a link with adult cancers but that this is
unproven. His work was commissioned by the National Radiological Protection
Board (NRPB), the government's radiation watchdog.

Doll is
chairman of its Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR). He has spent
months analysing the results of studies on cancer among people living near power
cables.

It is the first
time a British government body has accepted the link between cancer and power
lines.

It raises the
possibility of multi-million-pound claims by families who have blamed their
children's illnesses on the cables. It could also reopen campaigns by local
groups to have power lines buried underground or moved away from homes.

Professor Colin
Blakemore, a member of Doll's group, said: "The evidence is that there is a
slightly elevated risk of cancer near to power lines. We are going to
acknowledge that evidence exists indicating an association between power lines
and cancer."

Blakemore said
the mechanism was uncertain but could be due to the high voltage lines emitting
charged particles called ions which may then be inhaled.

Blakemore
added: "It's important to acknowledge that there is a link and we need to do
more research on it. Putting power lines underground would be a possibility. The
cost would be enormous if we did this to existing power lines, but it is
something that we may have to take into account for future development and
especially new housing."

Doll's report
will emphasise that more research is needed to confirm the mechanism. Previous
studies - which have been considered by Doll's expert committee - have suggested
that tens of thousands of people in Britain live close enough to power lines to
be affected by strong electromagnetic fields.

The analysis in
the new report suggests that a small number of children each year could develop
cancer.

The link
between overhead power lines and cancer was first made in America in 1979. By
1990 several independent British studies had also suggested that electromagnetic
fields could damage health. However, successive reports ruled out the connection
and legal action by sufferers against electricity companies was abandoned.

The NRPB
oversees safety research and regulation for all kinds of radiation. It has
always taken a cautious approach to claims that power lines affect health, but
this weekend insiders were acknowledging that it may have to revise its
policies.

Martyn Day, the
solicitor who in the mid-1990s pursued unsuccessful claims on behalf of
leukaemia victims, believes that the findings could enable legal action to
reopen.

"This is
probably the most significant step forward for 10 years," he said. "I was forced
to back off, pack away the files and put them into archives, but this may well
mean I will start to dust them off once more."

The Electricity
Association, which represents many of Britain's power generators and
distributors, said there was no concrete evidence that the electric and magnetic
fields generated by power lines caused cancer. "Any suggestion of a health risk,
however weak, needs to be taken seriously," it added.

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